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Combined.
On 15th November, 1898, Mr. Vezey was appointed, in the room of Mr. V. T. Talbot, to attend
the Holborn Conference, in conjunction -with Mr. Moss.
On 6th December, Mr. Vezey reported having attended, with the Assistant Vestry Clerk,
the meeting of the Conference hold that afternoon at the Holborn Town Hall, when the following
report of a Committee of the Conference was adopted: —
1. In pursuance of the resolutions of the Conference your Committee presented to
the London County Council the draft of the Bill as approved with a request that the Council
would take steps to promote it in the last Session of Parliament. At the same time
your Committee desired the Council or one of its Committees to receive the representatives
of the Local Authorities at the County Hall.
2. To this communication an answer was received to the effect that the Main Drainage
Committee of the Council were already of opinion that the existing law should be
amended; consequently there appeared to be no necessity for the proposed meeting.
The Council further stated that when the Bill was in Parliament it would receive the
support of the Council. The Council at the same time called attention to the great difficulty
already experienced by them in getting Members of Parliament to introduce and
back the Bill and suggested that the Local Authorities should themselves obtain the
name of some Member willing to introduce the Bill and take charge of it.
3. In further pursuance of the resolutions of the Conference and acting upon the
above-mentioned suggestion, your Committee put themselves in communication with the Members
of Parliament for the Metropolis with a view to arranging for a meeting at which the
measure could be discussed and some Member selected to take charge of the Bill.
4. Your Committee were informed by the Chairman of the Unionist Members that
they did not consider an interview necessary, as the statements made on the subject by
the former Deputation from the Conference were fresh in their minds. It may be mentioned
that when the Deputation met the Unionist Members on the occasion here referred
to, they, without receiving any absolute pledge, gathered from the interview that
the Unionist Members representing Metropolitan Constituencies were, with but one or
two exceptions in favour of the Bill.